Six-year GAL member Ben Tortorici retired in 2000 after a thirty-five year career as an aerospace engineer. He began making classical guitars in the late 1970s and counts Bob Mattingly and Tom Blackshear as mentors.
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It Worked for Me: Blackshear Bridge Shaping Jig
2006
AL#87 p.69 ALA2 p.13
Ben Tortorici
A prototype using the router sander from a Luthiers Mercantile purfling jig, based on Tom Blackshear’s fixture for making bridges.